The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-28

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IWo west virginia NOTWITHSTANDING He'd
smond, of Mason Co.. Tells About Them.
Judge ]. 3. Redmond, one OF the best
all.round Republicans anywhere, and one
Of tho leading men In The salt and bromine
industry, stopped in the city last night on
his way home from tho East. Judge Red
mond was delegate TO the Chicago Con.
vention OF 1884 from the Fourth District,
and was one Of the a.fong mon Ia The dele.
cation. N 4 s. ,.i NJ ~ .iEfllti. 4
Y Judge Redmond is at the head Of tho
U. 8. Chemical Co., whose worka are In
Mason county and on the opposite side In
Ohio. The Chemical Go. 10 In The bro.
mine pool, which 10 known aa the Nation.
al Bronline Co.. and, with the exception
Of tho works Of Juhef and Roots & Co., In
the pome1oy Bend, handles the product
Of all the bromlne concerns In the coun.
try. Tho pool includes the works ut st,
Louis and Midland, both In Michigan,
Dover, Ohio, Pittsburgh. the Pomsroy
Bend with tho two i yceptlon8 already
noted, and those In The Kanawha. The
pool agent died recently and Judge Red.
mond has been chosen 10 fill the vacancy,
An lSrELLIogNcga reporter asked tie
Judge to tell him something about tho
bromine business. 8gits ~
i"Wellt' saia Judge Redmond, .you
must understand that in the first place we
take tho bitter water from the salt fur.
nsces, paying Tor the water at the rate oil
two cents y barrel on NIL tho salt manu-.
iac!ured. This bitter water VIC convert
into bromine, and the manufacturing
chemials use that for making bromide Of
potassium. There are four largo CONCERNS
IN the country that use our product, one
IN st. Louis, two In Philadelphia and one
IN Boston, besides two or three small ones
elsewhere. Bromine Is made In bu. one
place IN Europe, at S.ratsford; In Cor
many. We have now an otdcr for car
lond for Paris" r t.'.1l
us there any money in the businesa ~
1T would be fairly profitable II tho pool
price could be maintained, but the two
outside concernG interfere to some exten.
with that, though they cannot, Of course,
supply the whole demand. We cell be-.
tween SOC. GOO aud 400 900 pounds a year.
The pool price Ia 81 cents d pound. You
see, brolnine 10 on the free LIT, though
bromide has protection OF % per
cent. II our product were protected
fairly 1t would make no differ.
ence to the conaumer, and It would
be great help to US, We are
under great disadvantages in shipping,
being obliged To put up our product in OK.
penslve packages, and then to pay double
the 1irst clAss rates. We put the b-ominc
in quart acid bottles, containing seven
pounds each, with ground shoppers, and
pack the bottles in boxes filed with saw.
dust. II a bottle breaksi:is likely to heal
tho package and perhaps burn through
the car. This is owing 10 the chlorine il
the bromiue. You asked me about the
price. There wes time, before there was
|any bromine made IN this country, vher
1t sold for $50 pound" (
NOV, Judge, tell Inc something Of the
Mason county salt industry"
"Salt 10 not in satisfactory condition
90 you may imaeine from the fact that il
Is bringing but 65 cents barrel ut tbs
works. The barrel costs % cents. IL
May last our agent sold $4,000 bsrrel5
The interstate commerce lsw, which
hurts the Michigan furnaces, is come
help to ua, but there is no money in the
business True, We make BAIT for good
deal less then when it was selling ct 81 q
o barrel. We had TO consult the econo
mics and Look out for every littlo leak
Compelled by the zane necessity, we are
semodeling our furnace at Clifton on an
entirely different plan to mako salt BY q
new and cheaper method. Yes, the wellt
hnld ont Thara ia No inAina tisp ~ III.
minution in supply or in strength"